Active clinical trials for "Anemia, Aplastic"

Severe acquired aplastic anaemia (SAA) is a bone marrow failure disease characterized by pancytopenia and a hypocellular bone marrow. The corn pathophysiological mechanism is the destruction of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells mediated by auto-reactive effector T cells. Immunosuppressive therapy with horse antithymocyte globulin (ATG) plus cyclosporine (CSA) is currently the standard of treatment in patients with aplastic anaemia who are not eligible for bone marrow transplantation and with response rates from 40% to 70%. Previous studies showed that horse ATG (hATG) is apparently more effective than rabbit ATG (rATG) as the latter has higher treatment related mortality (TRM). Unfortunately hATG is unavailable in China, so we conduct a optimized standard treatment (9 days protocol) of rATG plus CSA and Levamisole (LMS) Sequential maintaining (termed Optimized Standard Protocol, OSP) for severe aplastic anemia. This prospective study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Optimized Standard Protocol as first line therapy in newly diagnosed severe aplastic anemia patients.

The purpose of this study is to analysis of the pharmacokinetics of fludarabine for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in pediatric patients.

RATIONALE: Giving low doses of chemotherapy before a donor stem cell transplant using stem cells that closely match the patient's stem cells, helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It also stops the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune system and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Giving an infusion of the donor's T cells (donor lymphocyte infusion) after the transplant may help increase this effect. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving antithymocyte globulin before transplant and cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well a donor stem cell transplant works in treating patients with hematologic cancer, metastatic kidney cancer, or aplastic anemia.

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the effect of supplementation with donor T-cell depleted, CD34+ peripheral blood stem cells on durable engraftment and incidence of graft-versus-host disease in patients with aplastic anemia undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

The reconstitution of a functioning immune system after allogeneic stem cell transplantation takes months to years. Particularly memory B-lymphocytes reconstitute poorly with the current conditioning regimes. During the period of intense immune suppression the patients are extremely susceptible to bacterial, fungal and, most importantly, viral infections.The adoptive transfer of B-lymphocytes from the stem-cell donor might significantly enhance humoral immunity for the patient. Aim of the study is to evaluate a new cellular therapy with B-lymphocytes regarding safety. A booster vaccination after B-lymphocyte transfer will evaluate the functionality of the transferred B-lymphocytes in the patient.

Acquired Aplastic anemia is one of the most frequent reason of bone marrow failure in East (Pakistan). The first treatment option is Allogenic Bone Marrow transplantation which is an expansive treatment option and also require a full matched HLA identical donor, hence hardly 25% of our affected patients get opportunity for BMT. The second line treatment option caters a large chunk of patients (severe and non-severe AA) along with those who lack HLA identical donor. Previously many protocols had been used in past for ATG+CsA Treatment, this treatment protocol especially addresses the two different regimens of ATG to study its efficacy, durability and long-term effects. Following doses would be used: CsA+ATG @ 10mg/kg for 3 days CsA+ATG @ 10mg/kg for 5 days

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is an acquired chronic hemolytic anemia,this study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Levamisole combined with cyclosporine A in patients with classic paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Aplastic anemia is a rare autoimmune disorder in which the bone marrow production of blood cells is greatly decreased or absent. Symptoms include fatigue, weakness, tiny reddish-purple marks on the skin, abnormal bruising, and bleeding from the gums, nose, or intestine. While some cases of aplastic anemia are caused by medications, toxic exposures, or inherited genes, most often the cause remains unknown. The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of combining two drugs, sirolimus and cyclosporine, for treating individuals with aplastic anemia that has not responded to other treatments.

This is a multicenter, open-label, prospective one arm study to explore the efficacy and safety of Avatrombopag in non-severe aplastic anemia. Patients meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria would be recruited. Treatment of Avatrombopag would be started with 20mg/day. The dosage would be increased by 20 mg/day every 2 weeks if the platelet count remains less than 20×10e9/L and reduced if the platelet count reaches over than 150×10e9/L. The dosage could range from 20mg/week to 60mg/day. All patients would receive treatment for at least 6 months except that the platelet <20×10e9/L at the dosage of 60mg/day for 4 weeks or the platelet ≥200×10e9/L at the dosage of 20mg/week for 2 weeks. The hematological response rate and safety will be recorded and compared at every month after starting the study treatment. The patients would be followed up for at least 6 months.

The hospitalization for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) impairs the physical functioning and functional capacity, but aerobic physical training and, more recently, inspiratory muscle training, have shown benefits to patients' health submitted to this intervention. However, is not known the effect of aerobic physical training combined with inspiratory muscle training in hospitalized patients for HSCT. The purpose of the study will be verify the safety, feasibility and effects of the training association.